ART. 21 BUGS OF THE FAMILY NABIDAE O 



8. NABIS CONSTRICTUS Champion 



Guatemala : Cacao, Treec Aguas, Alta V. Paz, Schwarz and Bar- 

 ber, collectors. Mexico: Frontera, Tobasco, June 1897, Townsend, 

 collector. 



9. NABIS PANAMENSIS, new species 



Moderately elongate, pubescent, testaceous, an anteriorly widening 

 longitudinal stripe on head, a faint median longitudinal line on 

 pronotum, with humeri of pronotum, tip of scutellum, veins of hemi- 

 eiytra (someAvhat interrupted), segment I of rostrum, sides of 

 thorax, basal segments of venter and median portion of genital 

 segment embrov^'ned. Antennae, rostrum, and legs stramineous, fem- 

 ora with a reddish to brown band on their posterior surfaces one- 

 third from the apices. 



Head short, length of preocular part no greater than that of an 

 eye, postocular part not produced. Eyes large, reddish, coarsely 

 granular, their distance apart equal to width of one of them. Ocelli 

 small. Antennae slender, reaching to about middle of hemielytra, 

 segment I and anterior lobe of pronotum subequal in length, I and II 

 slightly thickened toward their apices, all clothed with fine, slender 

 hairs (I most sparingly) , proportion in length I : II : III : 13 : 16 : 13. 

 Rostrum slender, extending to middle of mesosternum, segment I 

 as broad as long, II, III, and IV in proportion 13 : 9 : 5 ; II and I of 

 antennae subequal in length. 



Pronotum broader than long, constricted slightly behind the 

 middle, collar wide, anterior lobe arched ; collar, with disk and sides 

 of posterior lobe coarsely punctate. Mesopleura sericeous, opaque, 

 rugulose, and obsoletely and coarsely punctate. Metapleura dull, 

 coarsely wrinkled, canals of odoriferous orifices elongately rectangu- 

 lar, strongly raised and shiny. Legs slender, clothed with fine hairs; 

 anterior femora moderately incrassate, furnished beneath with 

 slender hairs, some of which are longer and stiffer than others. 

 Scutellum broader than long, bifoveate on disk, the posterior half 

 raised, its apex fuscous. Hemielytra extending well beyond ab- 

 dominal apex, constricted before the middle and clothed along costal 

 margins with long hairs. Clavus coarsely punctate along its light- 

 colored veins, the commissure equal to anterior pronotal lobe in 

 length. Corium with veins embrowned, prominent along their 

 apical two-thirds, inner and outer closed apical cells subequal in 

 length and breadth, all veins sparsely beset with long, semierect hairs. 

 Membrane with several longitudinal veins. 



A^enter clothed with fine hairs, connexivum narroAV, not sharply 

 delimited. Genital segment large. Male clasper with a narrow 

 oblong stem and a curved hook-like blade. Length: (to tip of 

 abdomen) 3.6 mm. to 3.9 mm.; width, 0.82 mm. to 0.91 mm. 



